Jess MacMillan > Jess's Quotes

“I claim you for my very own. With my blood. With my bone. With my heart. With my soul. You are mine. Forever. In this world, and in the next”
― Amanda Bouchet, Heart on Fire

“I will never let you go, and I will never leave you. I would defy creatures, and Gods, and terrible, brutal queens to keep you safe and by my side. I would move Mount Olympus itself to hold you in my arms and feel your heart beat against mine. You are my soul, and yes, I will fight for you and protect you until my dying breath.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“The minute you cease being afraid of yourself, there’s nothing in this world that can stop you.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“I turned to leave, then whirled around and flung my arms around Philippe’s massive shoulders. How could such a man ever be broken? “What is it?” Philippe murmured, taken aback. “You will not be alone either, Philippe de Clermont,” I whispered fiercely. “I’ll find a way to be with you in the darkness, I promise. And when you think the whole world has abandoned you, I’ll be there, holding your hand.” “How could it be otherwise,” Philippe said gently, “when you are in my heart?”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“No one is ever truly gone. Not so long as you remember the lessons they have taught you during your time together. I choose to focus on that, the time we had, instead of the time we have lost. Anger and hatred can make the world a cold and dark place. But even in the darkness, there is always the chance for light, for hope. We are that hope. It is our choices, the ones we are faced with every day, that will bring color into the world or leave it in darkness. I choose to bring light.”
― Meg Anne, Crown of Embers

“To fear the shadow is to betray the light. Recognize the potential for destruction, but do not fear it and it shall not pass.”
― Meg Anne, Mother of Shadows

“I swallow, my throat painfully dry. If it were just me, I wonder how hard I’d fight, what extremes I’d go to to survive. But it isn’t just me, and extremes don’t even come close to what I’d do to protect the people I love. I”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“You’re a dream I didn’t know I had,” he rasped.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Nightchaser

“We don’t lock up books in this house,” Philippe said, “only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“fine initium novum,’” Matthew said, gazing upon the land of his father as though he had, at last, come home. “‘In every ending there is a new beginning.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“Think and stay alive. - Phillipe de Clermont”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“I will always come back to you.”
…I lean forward and kiss him because he’s my hunger and my food, my thirst and my water, my air and my every breath.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“You’re the shield, and I’m the sword.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire

“Never promise things you can't deliver," I whisper.
"I can try," he whispers back, and I hate myself because I smile.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“Maybe I'll trust him to fight my monsters while I sleep. Maybe I don't have a choice.
His voice is fierce in my ear. "You're mine now, Cat. Don't you dare die on me.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“Trial by fire.
It forges a heart of iron.
And sets it alight.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Heart on Fire

“When Gods dabble in the affairs of men, anything can happen.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“Do you know what I have in my heart? I have hope. And I'll share it with the world.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Heart on Fire

“We have dragons," Shade said, nodding toward the darkening treetops. "That's where they live."

She gasped, and her head whipped around. "What? Really?"

Damn. He couldn't help smiling again. "Just kidding."

"Why would you do that?" Tessa's hand snapped out and thumped him hard across the chest. "Dragons don't exist."

His lip twitched. "Maybe they did- at one point."

She shook her head. "Next you'll be telling me there are mermaids in your ocean."

Shade sighed. "Ah, wouldn't that be nice. I'd come to the beach every day if that were the case."

He thought she muttered men under her breath.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Nightchaser

“She’s mine.
But even as I think it, I know the truth. It’s me who belongs to her. Every last shredded ounce of my soul is hers.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Wild Irish

“I really, really like how you make me feel – like if you looked at me every day, the way you’re looking at me right now, I could do anything, be anything, be more”
― Mia Sheridan, Stinger

“Also, babe, you play hot secretary for me when I get home at the end of the day, and I'll have no need to do my real one.”
― Mia Sheridan, Stinger

“Shit, I'm sorry," he finally said. "For what?" I asked, angrily, "the insults or the kissing?" "The insults. Not sorry for the kissing.”
― Mia Sheridan, Stinger

“I’ll remind you every day how amazing it feels when your body touches mine. I’ll remind you of the good times, and help you forget the bad. I’ll remind you who you are when life has beaten you down and made you doubt it. I’ll bust down yourdoor in the middle of the night and kiss you until you remember that your fears are just that, and they can’t control you. I’ll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it’s mine.”
― Cora Carmack, Faking It

“I’ll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it’s mine.”
― Cora Carmack, Faking It

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Happiness is a strange, frightening, fragile feeling when you're not used to it.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“The smell of the books, the promise in the shelves of printed pages . . . I loved stories, and always had.”
― Jen DeLuca, Well Met

“is nothing in this world that was ever more mine than you,” he stated.”
― Aly Martinez, Fighting Silence